Therapist
Escape From Tarkov “A Healthy Alternative” Quest Guide
Find the Lab journal on Factory, then make sure the right trader gets it.

A Healthy Alternative requires one Lab journal, but the important decision is which trader receives it. After picking up the journal, you can pursue Therapist’s quest or Peacekeeper’s One Less Loose End. Completing Peacekeeper’s quest removes access to A Healthy Alternative, so choose your hand-in before finishing the competing task.
Requirements and objectives
- Hand over one Lab journal to Therapist.
- The journal can only be found while A Healthy Alternative is active.
- The journal is a found-in-raid handover item.
Needed equipment
You need one Lab journal for the hand-in.
How to complete A Healthy Alternative
- Keep A Healthy Alternative active if you want the journal for Therapist. Picking up the journal opens the choice between this quest and Peacekeeper’s One Less Loose End.
- Search the laboratory on Factory’s second floor. The journal has multiple possible spawns across its two rooms:
- First room, on the trolley.
- First room, on the chest of drawers beside the glass cabinet.
- Second room, in the bottom compartment of the right industrial shelf.
- Second room, in the small fridge on the floor.
- Second room, on the right desk.
- Pick up the Lab journal and extract. It transfers to your quest item inventory when collected, but you lose it if you fail to extract with it.
- Hand the journal over to Therapist. Do not complete One Less Loose End first, since doing so removes access to this quest.
Rewards
- 3,000 EXP
- One Lucky Scav Junk box
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